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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

Nadine Gordimer

About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Being Between Fully Make Standing Tension Writer
All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Beauty Filling Moral No
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Horror Known Miracle One Ought Saint Suffer
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Being Contempt Human Interested Sufficiently Writer
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Analysemwould Canyon Cross Down Themselves Tightrope Writer

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